Dr. Sanchez has been a member of the Rider Community since 2002. She teaches auditing at both the undergraduate and graduate levels and fraud detection and deterrence at the graduate level. She is Coordinator of the Online Masters of Accounting program. She also serves as faculty adviser to the Accounting Society.

Sanchez has been a recipient of numerous research fellowships and awards. Her research is primarily in the areas of auditing, behavioral research and forensic accounting and fraud detection, and has appeared in the Journal of Accounting Research, Accounting Review, Journal of Forensic & Investigative Accounting, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, Journal of Forensic Accounting and other respected journals. She frequently presents her research at meetings of the American Accounting Association.

She is a member of the American Accounting Association, Philadelphia Electronic Crime Task Force, Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, Institute of Management Accountants, American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, and Pennsylvania Society of Public Accountants.

Honors/Awards

2014: Davis Fellowship. Rider University. Project title: An Empire Built on a Lie: The Peregrine Fraud

2014: The Rider Way Award for Service in the Graduate Program. Rider University, College of Business Administration.

2013: Spring Research Leave. Rider University, College of Business Administration. Project: Solutions for Integrating Sustainability into Business Courses

2012: Rider University Summer Developmental Fellowship. Project: Current Issues in Accounting Auditing: A Perspective from the Regulators

2012: Stillman School of Business, Seton Hall University, and NJ Business and Industry Assoc.'s public policy research affiliate NJPRO Foundation Bright Idea Award for the article entitled 'Initial Public Offerings and the Role of the Management Accountant' with co-authors Dorothy McMullen and David Stout.

2012: Paper titled The Role of the Forensic Accountant in a Medicare Fraud Identity Theft Case was listed on SSRN's Top Ten download list for Forensic Accounting eJournal Social Science Research Network.

2011: Manuscript entitled: Initial Public Offerings and the Role of the Management Accountant in the IPO Process, by Dorothy McMullen, Maria H. Sanchez and David E. Stout, won a Certificate of Appreciation in the IMA's Lybrand Awards Manuscript Competition. Institute of Management Accountants (IMA) Lybrand Awards Manuscript Competition.

2010: Selected by Dean Larry Newman to appear in the Faculty Spotlight in the May 2010 issue Rider University's CBA Newsletter: Getting Down to Business.

2009: 2009 Research appeared in the Eighth Annual Volume Publications of New Jersey's Business Faculty.

2007: 2007 Research appeared in the Sixth Annual Volume Publications of New Jersey's Business Faculty.

2006: 2006 Research appeared in the Fifth Annual Volume Publications of New Jersey's Business Faculty.